Jacqueline asked in comments on a previous blog about my astronomy interest and since my reply was turning into a regular blog entry I decided to go ahead and move it. Beside I know of a couple of readers who avoid reading comments.

Astronomy has always been an interest. Jack gave me a very small telescope for Christmas right after we moved here, but with no tracking motor and such small optics, I enjoyed spying on neighbors more than star gazing. Then a few years back I took a class at the local collage and was hooked. For my 30th Jack gave me a Meade LX200 12 inch before the GPS was standard with it. I absolutely love it! We've combined loves and have taken some great Moon Shots. Basically I've seen rings on saturn, the spot on Jupiter, topography on Mars, a few galaxy and nebula, and lots of empty space in between. Most visitor's are more impressed with Saturn than anything else, but I have to say I was most blown away with seeing the storm on jupiter. This is all from our very light polluted back yard. Jack and I have been discussing taking it out to the middle of no where, but we haven't gotten around to it yet.

I am really looking forward to taking Megan out and showing her the universe, when she's older. Already she knows about Moon and stars and loves to go out and have me point them out to her.